Video-captured animation
Digitized sound effects
Dos and Windows '95 compatible
Realistic Gameplay
Virtually everything you can do in a real tennis match, you can do
in Top
Tennis -volleys, lobs, dropshots, aces etc.
A Dozen Tournaments around the world
From London to Sydney, Paris to San Francisco.
4 Different Court Types
Hard, Clay, Grass and Indoor -each with their own unique surface properties.
4 Levels of Difficulty
Beginner, Intermediate, Pro and Top.
Up to 4 Players at once
2 via keyboard, 2 via joystick.
Training
Perfect your game, before unleashing your talents on the world. Fully
customizable, with serve and ball machine training.
Replays
Watch your winning moves again and again.
A Range of Gameplay
Play just a friendly, a tournament or a full season. Play a match with
3 sets or 5
sets, singles or doubles.
Setup
Requires: 386 or greater , VGA
Supports: Mouse, Joystick, Soundblaster compatible sound card
Dos
Switch to the directory that you installed Top Tennis to.
Type "setup" at the command line.
Choose your soundcard and its settings.
Type "Tennis" to play the game.
Windows '95
Open the folder that you installed Top Tennis to
There are two icons one for "Setup" and the other for "Tennis"
Double click on the "Setup" icon and choose your soundcard setup
Double click on the "Tennis" icon to start the action!
Menu
PLAY
DEMO
TRAINING
OPTIONS
PLAY
Clicking on "Play" or hitting the "P" key
from the main menu will take you to the Play menu.
From here, you can choose to play a variety of different tennis matches.
Friendly
A one-off, friendly match, not part of any season or tournament.
Tournament
Choose any of 12 different tournaments to play in. Court types
vary depending
on the tournament. Only 1 tournament available in the shareware version.
Full Season
Play a full season. Try to work your way up through 12 tournaments
from position number 64 in the world rankings to number 1. Not enabled
in the shareware version.
Number
Choose singles or doubles matches. In a doubles match, Player 1
+ Player 3 always play against Player 2 + Player 4.
CPU Level
Determine how good a player your computer opponent will be.
Beginner, Amateur, Pro or Top
Match Length
3 or 5 sets.
Court type
4 different types, each with their own unique ball bounces.
Clay, Hard, Grass, Indoor. Not enabled in the shareware version.
Load Replay
Load a saved replay. While playing a match, you can watch a
replay of the last point by pressing the "F3" key while the score is still
on the screen.
Hall of Fame
Here you can look at the great players of Top Tennis in your
neck of the woods.
DEMO
Watch a sample game on your PC
TRAINING
Before you unleash your talents on the world, you might want
to hone your skills. Here you can
perfect your game to your hearts content.
Serve Training
Practice your service
Machine Training
Ball machine. Control where the machine throws the ball
for each shot. 12 different possible shots (A - L). By default the machine
will cycle through each of them one by one.
Serve position
Fixed or Rotative. Stay in the same position during your
training or
change position after each shot.
Machine Delay
Short, Medium or Long. How fast the machine fires tennis
balls at you.
Court type
Clay, Hard, Grass, Indoor. Not enabled in the shareware version.
OPTIONS
Music Volume
Sound FX
Game Speed Normal, Low or High.
Players 1 -4 Choose whether a player is the computer (CPU) or human on
a keyboard or a joystick.
Redefine Keyboard
Calibrate Joystick
How to Play
The Rules of Tennis (only if you are unfamiliar with the game).
A player, standing behind his baseline, uses a racket to serve the ball
over the net. For the serve to be good, it has to land in the "service
court" of the receiver. This is the rectangular area closest to the
net and in front of the opposing player. It takes up about a quarter of
one side. A point is scored when:
one of the players fails to return the ball
if the ball bounces twice on the same side of the court
the ball lands outside the boundaries of the court ("OUT!")
when the server fails to serve the ball properly
(e.g. hitting the ball twice into the net or not serving it to the service
court, again
"OUT!" in Top Tennis).
The court boundaries are demarcated by white lines. The outer set are for
doubles matches, the inner set for singles matches
A game is won, by the first player to win 4 points by a 2 point margin.
The first point is called 15, the second 30, the third 40 and the fourth "game". A zero
score is called "love". Hence
a score during a game maybe "15 love" (15-0) if the server is
winning, or "love 15" if the receiver
of the serve is winning. If both sides reach 40 (a condition known as "deuce"),
one of the
players must win two consecutive points to win the game. After deuce, the
next point is
"advantage", as in "advantage Smith" (Smith being the
name of the player who has just won the
point). The next point after advantage, if Smith wins the next point as
well, is game. If he loses
the next point, the score reverts to deuce.
The first side to win 6 games by a 2 game margin, wins a "Set".
A match can consist of
3 or 5 sets. The first side to win 2 of 3, or 3 of 5 sets wins the match.
Typically, women's or
doubles matches consist of 3 sets.
How to Play Top Tennis
General keys during play:
ESC to quit a match
F3 Replay
F5 Pause the game. Press F5 again to continue
F10 Boss screen. Press F10 again to continue
Serving:
Press the Spacebar ("fire" button on a joystick) to throw the
ball up in the air.
As the ball falls, you hit it by pressing an Up or Down arrow key.
Up causes your player to hit the ball hard, Down to hit it softly. When
your player is
serving from the other side of the court (furthest away from the camera
viewpoint)
these keys are reversed (Up is soft, Down is hard). The key to a good serve
in Top
Tennis is knowing just when to hit the ball as it falls. Remember you need
to hit it
inside the service court (see rules above). Practice makes perfect (you
can
always practice under Training from the main menu).
You can adjust your shot to the right or left by pressing and holding the
Right or Left
arrow keys, just before hitting the ball.
Summary:
Press the Spacebar (or "fire" button on a joystick) to throw
the ball in the air
Wait for the ball to start falling
Press and hold the Left or Right arrow key (optional)
Press the Up or Down arrow key to hit the ball
Returning the ball:
To hit the ball back over the net, press the Spacebar (or the "fire"
button on a joystick).
The longer you hold the Spacebar before releasing it, the more powerful
your return shot
will be.
Drive/backhand selection is automatic based on the position of the player
in relation to
the ball.
You can adjust your shot to the right or left by pressing and holding the
Right or Left
arrow keys before releasing the Spacebar to hit the ball
Other shots:
Lob Press and hold the Up arrow key before releasing the Spacebar to hit
the ball.
Dropshot Press and hold the Down arrow key before releasing the Spacebar
to hit the ball.
When your player is at the other side of the court (furthest away from
the camera viewpoint)
these keys are reversed.
Summary:
Press and hold the Spacebar (or "fire" button on a joystick)
Press and hold the Left/Right/Up/Down arrow keys to direct your shot
Release the Spacebar and arrow key to hit the ball
Technical support
If you encounter problems trying to setup or play the game, that are not
solved by reading
this manual, please contact us at:
support@gamefactory.com
or + 1 203 776 8608
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